Nearly one fourth of the widely used new-generation biological drugs can cause serious side effects.  

Humiraand Remicade drugs for arthiritis; cancer drugs Rituxan and Erbitux, and the heart failure drug Natrecor were included in the list of these drugs.

The study has stunned the doctors who had been recommended these drugs considering them to be safer than other medicines.

The biological drugs are made from living material. They affect the body's disease-fighting immune system. Most of these drugs suppress the disease symptoms.

According to Dr Charles Bennett a Northwestern University drug safety expert, the mechanism of working can cause side effects.

Children who undergo surgery before 3 years and are exposed to general anesthesia, have a double risk of behavioral or developmental problems than other children.

According to lead author Charles DiMaggio, an assistant professor of clinical epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons' Mailman School of Public Health in New York City,"There really is no hard evidence that there is any causal association between anesthesia and developmental outcomes in children, though research in rat models indicates that there may be some association between the types of anesthesia and neuronal [brain cell] level changes. The early concern is, could these data be extrapolated to humans?"

A woman chose to going to jail instead of paying $7.45 bill at Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant.

It was a proud moment for World Champion Viswanathan Anand, when he again won against Russian Vladimir Kramnik in the sixth game with white pieces.

A device has been invented by a German car-maker that will let the motorists to avoid red lights. The name of this gadget is Travolution and it informs the drivers to drive at a specific speed so that when they arrive at the traffic lights, it is green.

The formula behind this gadget is that once installed inside the car, it plots the position of the vehicle and the distance from the next set of traffic signals. Following this, the optimum speed is displayed by it on a screen.

Jurors' failure to reach a verdict after 8-hours of deliberations, left the Judge in Britney Spears’ trial for driving without a valid California licence, no option but to declare it a mistrial.